Warlock baby

The important bits of the ultrasound were really good. The blood flow through the cord is fine, and the cord is not around anyone's neck yet. Heart, fine. Body parts, fine. Measurement of the femur bone, fine. Placenta in the right place. Skull looks good. Weight: 3 lbs 2 oz. (50th percentile, so not too big, not too small.) Active healthy baby. He kicked me in the stomach many times while we watched.

Yup, he. We saw great big boy parts between warlock baby's legs: scrotum first and then a penis. Squee! He groped himself too, which cracked me up and made the ultrasound jiggle.

He's definitely his own kid. Magdalynn seems to think he'll have a lot in common with Ahren (her astral child... don't ask :)).

It's a bit of a mind bender, even though I thought I'd made such a good adjustment in my thinking to a new baby and a new experience. I'm glad, but it also made me miss Emily the more, or at least my ideas about doing girl things with her. Then I was kind of glad to be starting over with a new kid. My son. I've gotten used to saying my daughter, but saying my son is a new one.

My son.

Of course in my consumeristic way I went and bought a coming-home outfit that's very boy-y, and to have and hold and look at and imagine the possibility that will actually happen. An oufit for my boy.